Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-03-05
THIEVING INDIANS.
The Reservation Wards Make & Roundup
 oTa Band of IIorses.

The Reservation Wards Make H Roundup
 oTa Band orHorses.
 For months pas, the settlers in and about th- Dripping Spriacs, for Gis ianCe of hf,een or twenty lilts f.-u the western boundary Cf tle rlseTVati r-. have been more 1r lees Is-'yel tr dep redguors from 'E- ras-Ev. '-ll illla.. l.. and lt vas DO -u-y-i=a nov and ...r .. find evidences Ct @ steer OF .Tc l..at or a horse stolen. In nearly every Il- stance all efforts t0 trGc7 ti.1 rrrE --a.- -Ts C1 the-e fh-tts has faIls g, hu- e- .- wta learned c. fix tie rasrru ty upon tEee Indians. La=f C.-jsf- I. steer belonging Co -.r. ". A. GitI was killed by the I1dlGns, but they ... creted the hide and no positive cv.jalrC aga nst them could be secured. N- e-. tune they stole two horses. only r.e -t which was recovered, and that vgs Cl- 'alued through its recognition by Q friend Ct Mir. Griffith. The Ofic-r ir charge promptly gave it up. t1s though. the Indian who had brought 2, to him aF having been found OF the |. sa-yatirp. should te rewarded fer Li3 t-au1Ie. Know that the hoCo cl re 9a:d v-as the incentive to the theft, such a pre- mium upon rascal!.y was promptly de- clined by Mr. Griffith.
 ca February 22 ] lot Oi Indians left Capt. Smiths band, on She Giia above the bridge, inside the reservation. and went towards Dripping SprinEs. They were seen by several people. although but little heed was paid t1 tLel. On the g tley rounded up c. nerd otabCus twenty-five horses belonging % Nr Griffith and five CT SIX Othtra beicLgi z Co Mir. Sutherland. 4Id CtCaup. q Among th SC los. by Nr Griffith WAS valuable stallion that cost SS0', and many brood mares 0f good strain that were wI;h fusi, md VII certainly be ruined even # tEs. are .c- captured. One very fiery cc,diuy, un broken. was shot by the Ind us who failed to conquer hIs spirit. Tae ropes were still about his ham. triogs and the calico bhndfod was f0Gnd, together with evidences of a struggle with his cSpt0rs They also killed a beef a1d took the cIrcsss .li away with them.
 After q, a-Ing the horses taay made directly for the adjacent rocks where fr is impossible to trail them. Trese rocks are also cut up with tracks and traIlq running m every direction, which added tO the difficulty of trailing them. They went Go the reservation, but what dirsc ion they then pursued is not known. but it is believed they are destined for the White Mountain tribe O. the Maya los. Co whom they will be traded.
 Mr. Griffith as once notified the h. iiaa agent, bus has received DO reply from him, and without his cooperation uo successful search eau be made fOrthe stolen stock. The depredatlons were i0oe by the band of San Carlos Aoqrh 5s, residing on inc G.la. and the plsca where they rounded up the horses is F miles west of the reservation llne.
 The settlers m that vicinity are natur- ally very indignant over these unwar- rha;cd ou;raSes by the Indians, and the cnnst1ut recurrence of them IS liable Co provoke open hos.iii.ies 1.-the govern mentt0rbids the whites from trespassiug 0r the reservation, it should prevent the Indians from ;respaFsing on the prop
 rty 0t the whites, \ supply of "goodT Indians nay awaken sleepy old Uncle Sam up % 0 realization that there IS something more Tor him to look after than the surplus" in the national treasury.